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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 60 months Binding: Video Game Brand: Electronic Arts EAN: 0014633159073 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Electronic Arts Manufacturer: Electronic Arts Platform: Nintendo Wii Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: November 13, 2007 Sales Rank: 420 Studio: Electronic Arts
Features:
20,000 questions across 8 different categories
Multiple difficulty levels for all ages
Supports the importing of Mii avatars
Two gameplay types - Countdown and Wager
Simple, easy-to-learn interface that utilizes the Wii controller well
Product Description: How smart are you? Do you know more than your Grandma about world history? Does your little sister know more than your Dad about sports? Find out in Smarty Pants! Smarty Pants finally levels the playing field for people of all ages, allowing simultaneous play using age-targeted trivia plus action-based gestures, making it a truly trans-generational game made exclusively for the Wii. Tailoring questions to the contestant's age, gamers from eight to eighty can join in on the fun all at the same time. Exciting Wii gestures make everything a game, from spinning the category wheel and tug-of-wars over correct answers, to "dance-offs" for additional points. With both competitive and collaborative game modes and 20,000 questions in multiple categories, the fun is virtually endless! ESRB Rated E for Everyone
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Ready for Next Version
Wii "Smarty Pants":
Great game for "mental" exercise.. If you need a game to keep you mentally "humble", this will not bore you. Frustrate, but not bore.
I am hoping for another version soon with different catagories, like history, current events, politics, TV and geography. I personally know little about "art" and "fashion" and care little about learning them. The current "Smarty Pants" asks way too many sports questions that are dated back as far as into the 20's and 30's. (I am NOT that old!) We do better playing our daughter's "age" of 34.
This "Smarty Pants" game is mostly super entertainment. But Wii, please provide another "Smarty Shorts" ASAP! Thanks for this one, though!!
patti*tn
Rating: - Not a Smarty Pants..........
If you like game shows this is pretty good. The questions are agecentric, which is nice, I guess; I am going to enter a younger age, I'm tired of all the disco questions. But, we (hubby & me) had a lot of fun, it would probably be more fun with more players.
Rating: - Smarty Pants
Smarty Pants on the Wii is actually fun for all ages. My 60-year-old dad (who hates video games, but does like trivia) actually played this with us. He got the hang of ringing in and aiming/ using the Wii remote pretty quickly. And then he proceeded to beat us!!!
So, Smarty Pants is actually fun for everyone - even fun for people who normally don't get into video games. But that's part of the allure of the Wii in general too.
This is a great game to have on hand if you're going to be having company, or a party. Just make sure you have enough remotes to go around. Also, I would not recommend it if you don't have at least four people to play it. With any less than four, it's just not that much fun.
Rating: - An electronic deck of Trivial Pursuit cards
Smarty Pants is a collection of trivia questions accessed via the Wii as opposed to the old-school deck you'd find in a traditional board game. Unfortunately it stops there, since the scant additional features feel tacked-on like a lazy afterthought.
Though the menu claims to offer options, they boil down to single vs multiplayer and co-op vs competitive. The rest could be summed up as "difficulty". Once the game commences, you are presented with multiple-choice questions and choose the answer you want by simple point & click with the Wii remote.
The game's weak attempt to add motion control is implemented so poorly that as long as you waggle hard enough you get credit for any task you're supposed to perform, be it "Dance", "Jump", or even "Tug-of-War". I was hoping for more, but found myself disappointed.
The positive side of being such a basic game is that there was little opportunity for bugs or glitches- I certainly didn't encounter any. The game offers a lot of questions on a pretty wide variety of standard trivia topics, so if you're just looking for endless trivia this will be slightly more interactive than going through a Trivial Pursuit deck card by card.
In the end, though, if I'm going to plunk down my hard earned green for a video game whose core concept is already available in non-electronic format I expect to see some additions to the recipe and a unique experience. Smarty Pants fails to fulfill that expectation.
Rating: - Fun!
My husband and I enjoy this game. My 4-year-old is too young to play on her own, unless we read her the questions (in which case, she can easily answer most of them that are geared to her age, but she loses interest because how fun is it to just be asked questions by your mom?). I wondered if the "dancing" part of it would make my husband roll his eyes and grab for something more "manly," but it ended up just being pretty funny. The questions are challenging, the remotes easy to use (my 65-year-old non-video-gaming parents picked it up immediately) and the categories are broad enough to remain interesting. We've played it quite a bit and only rarely do we get repeat questions. Overall, worth the money!
- Not a Smarty Pants..........
- Fun!
